Online systems like SourceForge and later GitHub made it easier to share and collaborate on smaller open-source components. Subsequently, the early and explosive growth of open-source software tested some of those original ideas to the breaking point. In contrast to the focus on creating alternatives to large software packages in the past, today there’s a […]

The differences between 5G and 6G are not just about what collection of bandwidths will make up 6G in the future and how users will connect to the network, but also about the intelligence built into the network and devices. “The collection of networks that will create the fabric of 6G must work differently for […]

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 China is claiming that only 17 people have died from covid in ShanghaiWhich raises questions about how it defines a covid death. (NYT $)+ The city is forcing vulnerable and elderly residents into makeshift quarantine camps. (CNN)+ Unsurprisingly, the strict lockdown has sparked […]

“When I interview representatives of the driver community, they say that their life in Gojek is like a drug addiction,” says Suci Lestari Yuana, a PhD candidate at Utrecht University, who studies the conflicts and controversies surrounding the platform economy in Indonesia. They watch their income shrink, but “they don’t have other options to get […]

Bigger players haven’t figured out peer-to-peer crypto either. PayPal and Venmo (which PayPal owns) have claimed to support crypto since early 2021. But a closer look at their services reveals that though the platforms allow US customers to buy, sell, or trade crypto—invest, basically—they can’t pay for purchases or send crypto to other users. If […]

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Ukraine’s ‘internet army’ is pressurizing Western brands to exit RussiaAnd their campaigns seem to be working. (WSJ $)+ More than one in four people in Ukraine have left their homes. (WSJ $)+ The US and its allies are sending […]